A Harvard Professor named Margo Seltzer recently spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, saying that privacy was dead:  “Privacy as we knew it in the past is no longer feasible… How we conventionally think of privacy is dead.” Seltzer, a professor in computer science at Harvard University,

Sending Spies into Churches: It seems as though the line between church and state is getting blurrier all the time.  First we had the Mayor of Houston demanding that that city’s pastors turn in their sermon to her office for approval (an order later rescinded) and now we have the

In many of today’s most populated cities, there’s hardly any room for people, much less wildlife.  It’s becoming more and more difficult to provide any kind of real habitat for animals in these areas and, though the illustration below may look like something out of a science fiction movie, it

A new book called Corrupt Illinois: Patronage, Cronyism, and Criminality maintains that Illinois is one of the most corrupt states in the union. And Chicago is “undoubtedly the most corrupt city in our nation,” says authors Dick Simpson and Thomas Gradel.   Sure, four of our last nine governors went to jail, but I

ISIS extremists destroyed a museum in Mosul, Iraq that contained 3,000 year-old artworks that many historians deemed priceless.  The militants used  sledgehammers and power drills to destroy statues that some said “promoted idolatry.  The same group recently ruined thousands of books at the Mosul Public Library In this picture an